Is there any way to play Nintendo 64 games on the DS?

[Sir Spiffy]

Any emulators or convertors that will let me play Nintendo64 games if I have a Max Media Player, that anyone knows about?

I would love to get Banjo-Kazooie on my DS...

[Quay Cur]

This question pops up every once in a while, and sadly, the answer is no. In order to properly emulate the N64 the DS would need to be more powerful than it, which it isn't. The only possibility I have thought of is to have a program that could patch and convert the N64 roms and somehow downsize everything so it's only outputting graphics for a DS-sized screen and not a TV, but I doubt that's even possible. Though I have no programming knowledge, so maybe it is.

Banjo-Kazooie was a fantastic game.

[Sir Spiffy]

hm........... i thought it was just as powerful as the 64. it had all them extras with mario64 and the graphics for mario kart are much better.

i thought the ds was equal to the n64.

[NoQuarter]

The thing is for hardware to emulate another system it generally has to be 5 times as powerful.

[Quay Cur]

Those game were designed just for DS. You also have to take in to account that the devs who made those have a lot more experience now working in 3D and making things look good without putting a load on the processor. The graphics in FFIII put pretty much everything on N64 to shame.

[Quay Cur]

The thing is for hardware to emulate another system it generally has to be 5 times as powerful.

Exactly, that's partially why we have problems doing SNES emulation, too.

[Sir Spiffy]

wow i never realized that it took that much power.

we need to send nintendo a petition featuring a list of all the great remakes we want! if they want to flood the market with all these remakes, they need to do the BEST games!

or maybe we should send it to rare... i wouldnt mind having a bit of conker's bad fur day on my ds. the wireless would blow people away..

[Quay Cur]

Now that you mention it, I'm surprised Rare, or any for that matter, hasn't done a Banjo-Kazooie game for DS yet. Remake or sequel.

[Sir Spiffy]

no, i don't want a sequel, i want to relive the glory days!

grunty's revenge blows....

[Kramer]

the psp clocked at 333mhz is struglling to emulate n64 and the ds only has something like 88mhz to work with so there isnt much chance you could have a playable n64 emulator